Fall 2023 Master’s Enrollment Guide – Cornell Tech Student & Academic Affairs (2024)

Cornell Tech Academic Calendar

Click here to review the 2023-2024 Academic Calendar. Cornell Tech adheres to the Ithaca Academic Calendar for start/end dates of classes, holidays, etc. We will have an adjusted Reading Day Schedule for the Fall term that is mentioned in the link.

Cornell Tech Curriculum

Please follow your program’s academic requirements on your program curriculum sheet here. If you are having difficulty enrolling in a mandatory/required class for your program, please email the Student & Academic Affairs Team.

Add/Change Credits Deadline: September 5th at 11:59pm (ET)

After this deadline, adds will only be considered in extreme circ*mstances and requires faculty permission via Add/Drop Form.

Drop Deadline: October 16th at 11:59pm

Dropping a semester long class after the deadline requires instructor permission via the add/drop form and will result in a W on your transcript

Last Day to Change Grading Basis: October 16th at 11:59pm

Special Note:

As the add deadline has officially passed for full-term classes, you may submit an Online Electronic Add/Drop form for special consideration to enroll. Enrollment after the deadline will be considered based on instructor permission, available seats, and course eligibility based on your program. Please note this form is only for TECHNICAL courses (CS, ORIE, INFO, ECE). Do not submit for Johnson or LAW classes as they will not be processed via this form (you should email our team directly for inquiries at studentaffairs@tech.cornell.edu). Please allow 1-2 business days for us to review your add/drop form.

NBAY courses have varied start/end dates, the last date to add/drop will be according to when their class meets in the first or second half of the term.

First Half of semester (7W1):

Add Course/Change Credits Deadline: August 28th at 11:59pm.

Drop/Change Grading Basis Deadline: September 11th at 11:59pm

Second Half of semester (7W2):

Add Course/Change Credits Deadline: October 18th at 11:59pm

Drop/Change Grading Basis Deadline: October 19th at 11:59pm

Add Course/Change Credits Deadline: August 28th at 11:59pm.

Drop/Change Grading Basis Deadline: September 18th at 11:59pm

Yes, students enroll in classes through Student Center. Instructions on how to add, drop, swap courses are available here!

The Office of the Registrar also has Class Enrollment FAQ page that provides additional helpful tidbits on navigating course enrollment.

Yes, classes can be added to your shopping cart prior to when the enrollment period begins. However, this does not save you a spot in the class or guarantee that you will be able to take the class. Once your enrollment period begins, make sure you complete all steps to finish enrolling.

Any classes you add to your shopping cart (Step 1 on Student Center) will remain there during your enrollment or add/drop period unless all three enrollment steps are completed. You are not enrolled or entitled to a spot in a class if it has only been added to your shopping cart. If you are ready to add the class to your schedule, make sure you finish enrolling (Step 3 on Student Center).

Some classes are cross-listed across different major disciplines. If you are trying to enroll in a cross-listed class, please make sure you enroll in the section according to your major as this is where we reserved seats for your major (i.e. CS students should enroll in the CS section, ORIE should enroll in ORIE section, etc.).

Students who are in a discipline that is not listed in the crosslisting, you will be able to enroll in the main prefix of the class. See below for information this semester:

1. CS 5785/ORIE 5750/ECE 5414 Applied Machine Learning

• CS section: CS students and all other students from other disciplines (ORIE & ECE enroll in their respective sections below)
• ORIE section: ORIE students only
• ECE section: ECE students only

2. INFO 5340/CS 5650 Virtual & Augmented Reality

• INFO section: INFO students and all other students from other disciplines (CS students enroll in their respective section below)
• CS section: CS students Only

3. INFO 6410/CS 5682 HCI & Design

• INFO section: INFO students and all other students from other disciplines (CS students enroll in their respective section below)
• CS section: CS students Only

4. INFO 5345/CS 5424/ECE 5413 Interactive Device Design

• INFO section: INFO students and all other students from other disciplines (CS & ECE students enroll in their respective section below).
• CS section: CS students Only
• ECE Section: ECE Students Only

5. INFO 7060/LAW 7179 Digital Life Research Seminar

• INFO section: students and all other students from other disciplines (Law students enroll in their respective section below):
• LAW section: LAW students only.

6. ORIE 5355/INFO 5370 Applied Data Science: Decision-Making Beyond Prediction

• ORIE section: ORIE students and all other students from other disciplines (INFO students enroll in their respective section below)
• INFO section: INFO students only

7. ORIE 5380/CS 5727 Optimization Methods

• ORIE section: ORIE students and all other students from other disciplines (CS students enroll in their respective section below)
• CS section: CS students only

For each enrollment period, only a percentage of seats of the total enrollment class size will be released for Technical Courses. This allows both continuing and incoming students to have an opportunity to have open seats available in classes during their respective Pre-Enrollment periods. The full amount of seats will be released during Regular Enrollment in August.

For Technical and Law classes – if you are unable to enroll in a class during Pre-Enrollment, you will need to wait until Regular Enrollment to sign up (either directly when more seats open or on the waitlist if the class becomes full).

All course waitlists will open for Regular Enrollment. During this time is when our office begins reviewing available seats to move students off the waitlist is a manual process so we appreciate your patience as we work through this system. Students will be notified IF and WHEN they are officially moved off the waitlist to enrolled in the course.

Your patience is appreciated during this time.

Please do not inquire with faculty or other Registrar offices regarding the status of your enrollment. We ask that you refer to this webpage and also email our team at studentaffairs@tech.cornell.edu for any follow up inquiries.

Classes will have a limited number of seats available for specific populations of students based on their major (I.e. INFO, CS, ECE, etc). Almost all of Cornell Tech courses will have these reserved seats set up to allow an equitable distribution of student majors to enroll in a course.

If you encounter this error message, this means all seats have been filled by other students in your major. Even if the class shows as open/seats available, please be mindful the seats are for other majors.

As a next step please sign up for the class via the waitlist!

All courses at Cornell Tech will have reserve capacity groups arranged as mentioned in the question above. Once a class has reached maximum enrollment for a specific reserve group, it will no longer allow enrollment for students from that group into the class.

If seats are open for other student’s majors, you will still see the course’s status listed with a green circle as “open”. Please be mindful you will still not be able to enroll until a spot becomes available based on your major.

Generally, few PhD classes will consider Master’s student enrollment. These classes below are the only classes approved for Master’s consideration. Please note they have extremely limited seats (5-6 seats) for Master’s students, so these are not large courses.

Students can inquire with faculty regarding approval at this time. However please be mindful we will not begin processing enrollment until Regular Enrollment begins. As these courses are also geared for PhD Students , they also take priority to enroll. Even if approved, it is dependent on space availability!

PhD Courses Eligible to Master’s Students:

• CS 6382 Data Science for Social Change taught by Emma Pierson (SEM 130 only) – Instructor Permission Required
• ECE 6950 Special Topics: Reconfigurable Computing with Mohamed Abdelfattah (LEC 032 only) – Instructor Permission Required
• CS 6741 Topics in Natural Language Processing and Machine learning taught by Yoav Artzi (Section 031 only) – Open Enrollment for Masters students (very limited seats are open)
• INFO 6940 Special Topics with Angelique Taylor (LEC 031 only) – Instructor Permission Required

Other PhD classes are NOT open for exception/consideration. Please do not email PhD faculty for enrollment as it will be denied automatically.

TECHIE 5325 is the research course that approved students will take who are approved to attend the January iTrek. This programming will require an application to submit for enrollment – this will be sent out in a few weeks as the course does not begin until October.

Our Technion liason Michael Escosia will be communicating further details regarding the iTrek trip and this research course in mid-September. Students cannot self-enroll in this class. Thank you for your patience!

Only one Ithaca based course has been approved to be offered to Cornell Tech students. This course below is a 100% remote offering:

CEE 6800 Engineering Smart Cities

As this course is managed by the CEE department, if you need assistance with enrollment please contact Nicholas Wagner from the CEE department at nw346@cornell.edu.

For all other Ithaca based courses, please be mindful that they are not eligible for enrollment as they are not approved as applicable to Cornell Tech’s degree requirements. The Student & Academic Affairs Team will review enrollments on an ongoing basis – if we identify students enrolled in a non-approved course, they will be dropped.

• INFO 5410 Urban Systems – taught by Michael Samuelian will require non-Urban Tech students to seek instructor permission to enroll. Please email the faculty member to inquire, if you are approved he will provide a permission code to use for enrollment.
• INFO 5360 Healthcare Organization & Delivery – taught by Lisa Kern. This class is a 2 credit class. If you are a Health Tech student, we will auto enroll you in an additional +1 credit under TECH 5999.

Permission codes allows students to self-enroll in a restricted class. Very few classes will issue permission codes to enroll – below is a listing for reference.

• Required Studio Courses (we will issue permission codes prior to Pre-Enrollment)
• INFO 5410 Urban Systems (non-Urban Tech students must seek instructor approval by emailing the faculty, and if approved the faculty will provide you the permission code to use during enrollment).

Please be mindful that permission codes are only generated for the above courses. They are not created for other Cornell Tech classes. The permission code is uniquely assigned to a student for the specific class – it will not work for other courses.

Once you have your permission code, you can enter the permission code in student center enrollment to self-enroll – permission codes can only be used during the actual enrollment period. It will not be valid outside the enrollment period!

To enroll in the class:

1. Please proceed to your Student Center and search for your class (please be aware if the class is closed/full, the permission code will override this to enroll you!).
2. Once added to our cart, you will see further class info under “Add Class” details
3. Enter your Permission Number in the appropriate field under Class Preferences which looks like below:

4. Proceed to Step 2-3 to process enrollment!

Fall 2023 Weill Courses for Health Tech Students have been announced over the summer and is currently in the final stages of enrollment confirmation. Students who have applied will be notified of their enrollment shortly.

Non-LAW students will not have access to enroll in LAW classes during Pre-Enrollment. Very limited seats will be available for enrollment during Regular Enrollment in August. There are no pre-requisities for the classes below. However, please be mindful these classes have extremely small seats for non-Law students (in many cases 4-10 seats are reserved).

During Regular Enrollment, non-Law students will be eligible for the following Law Classes. Please note that all other Law Classes are not open to non-Law students (no exceptions – do not ask faculty regarding exceptions either!).

MBA classes are prioritized enrollment for MBA students. as these are required courses for their degree completion. For Non-MBA students, this means you will not be able to directly enroll in MBA classes during any enrollment period (even if you have satisfied the pre-reqs below!). Non-MBA students will either need to satisfy one of the two pre-requisites for consideration into the course:

• Enroll in TECHIE 5310 Business Fundamentals for the Fall 2023 term (enrollment for this course will open in August during Regular enrollment. There will be 5 sections of this course.

OR

• Be waived out of TECHIE 5310 Business Fundamentals. We will be sending out this Business Fundamentals waiver application after Pre-Enrollment. Decisions will be rendered before Regular Enrollment.

A few days following Regular Enrollment, the Johnson Registrar will review waitlists and verify if you have completed one of two options above in order to officially enroll you in that MBA class.

We have listed below the MBA courses non-MBA students are eligible to take. You will not have direct access to enroll but you can add yourself to the waitlist during Pre-Enrollment for the course as long as there is space available. If there is no space on the waitlist, you will have to wait for a spot to open during Regular Enrollment.

We will provide a waiver application following Pre-Enrollment at the end of July – we will communicate the exact date in the coming weeks!

Please note if you were previously approved for the Business Fundamentals Waiver, you do not need to apply again as it is still applicable!

To check your registration status, log in toStudent Essentialsand view your “Registration Status” at the top of the page.

• If you areregistered, your Registration Status will state “Registered” with a green checkmark.
• The absence of a green checkmark means there is aholdpreventing your registration.

Please also review the Class Enrollment FAQ’s as this will provide answers how to use the Registration System (Student Center) along with other helpful tidbits!

To view both current and archived historical course offerings/descriptions, you may review the course catalog on courses.cornell.edu

To download your semester’s class schedule to your personal calendar, please log in to the Scheduler page of the Class Roster to import your schedule! Instructions on how to use this feature are provided on the “Using Scheduler” tool.

Please be mindful once you download the calendar, it will not update automatically if any changes are made thereafter (you will need to re-download the calendar after updates are implemented).